, 1887-10-26

mentioned, may in some part be judged
by the fact that, with coolers or wagons
below the level of the mixers which car
ry the ce%ntrifugals, the maSse cutie
is frequently pumped TO these. In
this matter, Louisiana occupies as yet
an intermediate position: at any advan-
tage with Cuba, but at a disadvantage
with Europe's best practice, whose full
mGsse needs first be driven from its wagon
by compressed air, and afterwards to be
broken to fragments by power machinery.
seem to be no reason why the latter exam
pie should not be initiated here.
Seconds are boiled, as with us, most
generally to q string proof, this being
forced higher, however, than is usual III
Louisiana, a large yield of $50 test being
preferred, of course, to sugars, as here,
of quality such, if possible, as to admit of
direct passage into consumption. AS hap
pens here, too high a proof, in connec-
ton particularly with too great a heat
IN these, results i'll sugar decompositiOns
and the generation of gases in the wag-
Ons, which, with frothing, is certain to
end always disastrOuSly. At IngeniO Ca
%rolina, however, as at Magnolia, on the
Lower Coast, this season past, the frsts
are invariably swung out hot, seconds are
grained in the pan and struck into wagons,
and thirds, when made, become the first
goods boiled to a blank proof.
Thirds are not usually boiled, being con
sidered Improbable, Notwithstanding that,
ceteris pGrtbas, they might be expected to
yield in excess of our own, especially when
the latter follow a yellow clarified regime.
Wagon and wagon, room accommodations
for such, sufficient to permit their hand.
limo HnpInT harvest fJn0n uNRVI ran II n - a.
outlay so great as to leave no adequate
promise of profit behind, nothwithstand-
ing the wOrthleSsness in Cuba of even
second centrifugal molasses; while the
necessity, in their absence, of alternately
opening and closing the factory, during the
summers inter.regnum would prove even
more cOstlyand otherwise Objectionable there
than with Yourselves. In this connection, tits
not to be forgotten that the Cuban period of
manufacture now ends only about May. 1t is
even doubtful !. the molassrs could be
preserved in suitable condition, within
the tropics, until the fast of it might be
worked off under our methods.
Inquiry indicated, in addition to the
above, that, despite a purity of juice such
as is rarely or never attained in Louisiana,
second m0lasSes may be, aud frequently is
reduced to an exponent lower than that
secured with us, by close wagon boiling
and the total suppression of water or other
wash in the centrifugal. 1t should be re.
marked, however, that, in genera, string
sugars cannot be as advantageously boiled
in Cuba as they might well enough be,
with equal skill, in Louisiana, owing to
the scarcity of water again, as q principal
cause. Wagons are most often replaced
by tanks, not dissimiIar in proportions to
the Louisiana cooler, now becoming so
rapidly extinct, but are made in all cases
of tank iron instead of wood.
The molasses from the last boiling of
centrifugalS, whether of seconds or thirds,
usually goes to the compost pit or pile and
eventually, back to the soil as fertilizer;
or, in occasional instances, to the stills.
Rum, worth nearly as little as centrifugal
~treacle, is without profit. At San Limo,
a ninety five per cent alcohol was being
produced from the waste Saccharine pro-
ducts of the establishment, under the tech
nical superintendency of a French expert,
which was of unsurpassed excellence-as
transparent as the atmosphere and alto.
gether odorless and tasteless. This article
goes to Spain, and is there consumed in
wine manufacture; the refuse of the stills
passing to the land through 10 modest irri-
CATION ditch, as IL concentrated, liquid
fertilizer and irrigant. In some instances
the molasses from seconds goes to wagons
again or to the stills, according to the re-
lative state of the sugar and rum markets
but that it was possible to foretelf with